How long does it take to read Angela's Ashes?
by Frank McCourt
Checked July 2026
7h 55m
118,800 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 16 sessions with Angela's Ashes.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 11 days.
How many words is Angela's Ashes?
Angela's Ashes is about 118,800 words, estimated from its 432 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 hours 55 minutes.
Most reading-time sites default to 300 words a minute. The best evidence we could find, a 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies by Marc Brysbaert, puts silent adult reading of English prose closer to 238 words a minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction. We use 250. It is slower than the number you will see elsewhere, and it is closer to how people actually read.
This is still a model, not a measurement. When enough ReadersGuild readers have finished Angela's Ashes, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
How many pages is Angela's Ashes?
- Pages
- 432
- Author
- Frank McCourt
- Series
- Frank McCourt, book 1
- Genre
- non-fiction
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